Development of a new industrial process for trioxane production

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 62, Issue 18-20, 2007, Pages 5613-5620

  Grützner, Thomas ^a   Hasse, Hans ^a   Lang, Neven ^b   Siegert, Markus ^b   Ströfer, Eckhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b BASF SE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distillation; Formaldehyde; Industry university cooperation; On line NMR; Process development; Trioxane

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC TRIMER; INDUSTRY UNIVERSITY COOPERATION; REACTIVE COMPLEX;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRESSURE CONTROL; PURIFICATION; REACTION KINETICS; RECYCLING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

FORMALDEHYDE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; FORMALDEHYDE; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRESSURE CONTROL; PURIFICATION; REACTION KINETICS; RECYCLING; RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 34547943043     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2007.01.047     Document Type: Article

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